SINGAPORE: The chief financial officer of tech company Aperia International, Jenny Lim, was charged on Thursday (Apr 2) over a fraud conspiracy linked to Nvidia chips. Lim, a 51-year-old Singaporean, faces one count of being part of a criminal conspiracy in 2024 to commit fraud by false representation. She is accused of conspiring with two other Singaporeans - Aaron Woon Guo Jie, 41, and Alan Wei Zhaolun, 50, to falsely represent to Dell that its servers would be supplied to Aperia International, when the company was not the end user. At the time of the alleged offences, Wei was Aperia's chief executive officer, while Woon was its head of sales, the police said in a media release. Woon and Wei were first charged in February last year. They were among nine people arrested during raids by the Singapore Police Force and Singapore Customs. CNA understands the cases are linked to the alleged movement of Nvidia chips. The raids come on the back of media reports that said intermediaries in Singapore were involved in the illegal movement of Nvidia chips to China, bypassing US export controls. The US Commerce Department had reportedly been looking into whether DeepSeek – the Chinese company whose artificial intelligence (AI) model rocked the tech world – has been using US chips that are not allowed to be shipped to China. Lim, who was represented by Mr Adrian Wee from Lighthouse Law, did not give an indication of how she would plead. The prosecutor said Lim's co-accused, Woon and Wei, are scheduled for pre-trial conferences on May 22, where the prosecution is to come back with the finalised charges against them. "We plan to do the same for Ms Jenny in this case," she said, asking for the case to be adjourned to the same date as the two men. Lim's case was adjourned to May 22 for a pre-trial conference. She is on bail of S$350,000. The police said in a statement that Lim's charging followed investigations by the Commercial Affairs Department into the activities of 22 individuals and companies for their suspected involvement in fraud by false representation. Source: CNA/ll(gs)

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how many task force have sg created for the last 6yr   AI say There is no official single number published by the Singapore Government for the total task forces (or taskforces) created in the last 6 years (roughly 2020–early 2026). They are formed ad-hoc by ministries or inter-agency groups for specific issues, so no central tally exists. Many are high-profile national ones; others are smaller or sector-specific. From public news and government announcements, at least 12–15 major national/inter-agency task forces were established in this period